Tomio Mizokami

Tomio Mizokami (; born 1941 ) is a professor Emeritus of Osaka University, Japan. In 2018, he was conferred the Padma Sri by the President of India, at the Civil Investiture Ceremony on 2 April 2018, for his contribution to the fields of literature and education.

Education He was born in 1941 in Kobe, Japan. His Japji Sahib translation was published in 1987 in the Journal of Osaka University of Foreign Studies. In April 2026, Jvala Singh digitized Mizokami's Japji Sahib translation.

Awards

In 2018, he was conferred the Padma Sri by then President of India, Ram Nath Kovind, at the Civil Investiture Ceremony on 2 April 2018 for his contribution to the fields of literature and education.

Publications

1977 - “Bilingualism in Punjab - A Case Study in Lyallpur City - “Journal of Indian and Buddhist Studies, Tokyo, Vol. XXVI, No. 2 1980 - “Linguistic Outline of Fatehabad” & “Sociolinguistic Change among Migrants in Jalandhar,” Rural-Urban Migration And Pattern of Employment in India, Osaka 1981 - PUNJABI Asian and African Grammatical Manual No.13e, Tokyo 1983 - Introductory Punjabi, Tokyo 1983 - Punjabi Reader, Tokyo 1984 - Language Contact in Punjab [A Sociolinguistic Study of the Migrants’ Language], New Delhi, Bahri Publications 1985 - Practical Punjabi Conversation, Tokyo 1985 - Basic 1500 Punjabi Vocabularies, Tokyo 1989 - ”Some Orthographical Problems in Punjabi,” A Computer-assisted Study of South-Asian Languages Annual Report No.1, Tokyo 1992 - “Punjabi” & “Lahnda”, World Languages Dictionary, edited by Eiichi Chino, Takashi Kamei & Rokoro Kouno, Sanseido, Tokyo 2004 - “Status of Research in Bangla and Punjabi Literatures in Japan,” pp 323–335 2004 - “Language Teaching and Cultural Interchange through the medium of Hindi Drama,” pp 341–348, Imaging India Imaging Japan: A Chronicle of Reflections on Mutual Literature, Edited by Unita Sachidanand & Teiji Sakata, Manak Publications, Delhi

Translations

, translation of Guru Nanak's Japji Sahib composition into Japanese Translated The Sikhs: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices, by Owen Cole & Piara Singh Sambhi, into Japanese